Tools/apps to manage personal emails

Johnley John Senior Analyst / Programmer| St Vincents Melbourne Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

What tools/apps do you use to manage your personal emails(gmail, yahoo), when it is cluttered with many subscriptions, emails etc?

Which tools/apps are free and trustworthy and highly efficient?

Posted: Mar 15, 2016 12:33 AM

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Julia Cunningham Manager Project Management| Battelle Richland, Wa, United States

I am not sure whether it will work with those types of email services (nor am I up to date on the cost model), but I use X1 Search software to index and manage the enormous quantity of emails I receive, and that people continue to request from me, although we have excellent enterprise document and records management programs from which the information is also available. I believe it was under $50 US when I purchased, and at that time was not an annual subscription. It is an excellent product for me, and makes me appear highly efficient, while also reducing my frustration in searching for things from 5 years ago, which I only vaguely remember.
Good luck.

Posted: Mar 15, 2016 3:26 PM

Patrick Dicey Manager, Customer Project Management| CentralSquare Technologies Orlando, Fl, United States

I use gmail and simply unsubscribe from as many unnecessary recurring emails as possible to focus in on what I really want/need. If I get an email twice which I deem to not be important, I unsubscribe all immediately. I've never been disappointed about unsubscribing after the fact :)

Posted: Mar 15, 2016 4:05 PM

Eduard Hernandez

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Product Operations Program Manager Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain

I agree with Patrick. I'd add that Gmail has a very powerful search engine which turns out to be very useful and convenient.

Posted: Mar 15, 2016 4:25 PM

Johnley John Senior Analyst / Programmer| St Vincents Melbourne Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Thanks to all for the info

Posted: Mar 22, 2016 10:43 PM

Stéphane Parent Self Employed / Semi-retired| Leader Maker Prince Edward Island, Canada

While I use Patrick's tip for many personal and work "subscriptions", I also file all my work (Exchange) emails to a yearly PST. I don't bother with folders; I simply use the Outlook search to find what I want. (Please note this solution does require your PST files to be indexed.)

I typically close down the previous year PST sometime after April as I don't usually necessitate to retrieve emails that far back

Posted: Mar 22, 2016 11:01 PM

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